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All roads lead to Ogidi in Anambra State, Nigeria the home town of the late (Ugonabo) Professor Chinua Achebe on Wednesday May 23 2013 for the sage’s final burial. People from all walks of life...
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The ultimate goal of every benign government, especially of countries so categorised as ‘developing’, and so intended for a keen march into 21st century modernity is to adopt global best...
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When I was coming of age in my part of the African continent, I was oriented to four major metaphors for what my environment considered most important in our social discuss.
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The controversies that trailed Prof. Achebe’s last book—There Was a Country: A Personal History Of Biafra—came from different perspectives. While some people saw the book as one...
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Melford Dokubo Goodhead Jr., now known as Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo recently set the Nigerian media world literally ablaze at a press conference.
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Professor Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts about a decade before I joined the same University in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics laboratory. At the...
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Slowly but surely, the resort to ethnic preservation and protection – which is a natural outcome of deep ethnic consciousness – will continue to spread in irritating spaces like Nigeria...
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The Edos say “Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan”. A...
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Elevating the fallacy of the false alternative to Boko Haram insurgency, Bola Tinubu, and a few others in the Action Congress of Nigeria, believes Nigerians who welcomed President Jonathan's...
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As the Cuban missile crisis raged in October 1962; the US president sat in the White House and called the leaders of the key nations that were members of the UN Security Council to get their support...
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The recent declaration of state of emergency by the President Goodluck-led government on Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states as far as I am concerned is in order. It’s surprising that the...
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Following the recent upsurge in terrorists activities in the Northern part of Nigeria which claimed alarming figures of innocent civilian lives and security agents as well as the wanton destruction...
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